There was a time when Finland’s mobile phone giant Nokia ruled much of the mobile world. But intense competition from the likes of Apple and Samsung drove the company into the arms of Microsoft in 2013. Now, under new Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, the US c…
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A few years ago, co-opetition was a popular buzzword. The term is unattractive, semantically speaking. But in some manufacturing circles, its popularity as a business strategy is waxing again. Whereas its first emergence years ago might have signaled a ne…
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Microsoft's agreement yesterday to buy the four-year-old social networking software maker Yammer for $1.2 billion has turned up the spotlight on the idea of the social enterprise--a force that is coming your way faster than you may think. The idea of the…
Microsoft's agreement yesterday to buy the four-year-old social networking software maker Yammer for $1.2 billion has turned up the spotlight on the idea of the social enterprise-… http://www.gil-evevnts.gilcommunity.com/blog/microsoft-buys-yammer-and-manufacturers-should-take-notice/

At its annual Convergence conference this week, Microsoft is reportedly telling customers that the next major release of its Dynamics ERP products will be available as cloud-based services running on the company's Azure cloud infrastructure. The obvious q…
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The news that Infor has launched a $1.8 billion unsolicited bid for Lawson software should come as absolutely no surprise to Lawson customers. Enterprise software companies have been swallowing each other for years. Although Infor and Oracle have been the…
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Founded in 1896 by Swiss pharmacist Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche, the Roche Group still pursues his original goal of developing innovative drugs of uniform quality and distributing them internationally. Now Europe’s leading healthcare company and the world’s l…
Founded in 1896 by Swiss pharmacist Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche, the Roche Group still pursues his original goal of developing innovative drugs of uniform quality and distributing the… http://www.gil-evevnts.gilcommunity.com/blog/dialogue-roche-boosts-it-vitality/